Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Press Release: Intel announces 80960 architecture
Message-ID: <10320@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 8 Apr 88 12:42:37 GMT
References: <3358@omepd>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: 80960, RISC, embedded control

Questions on the 80960:
  1) why now?
  2) why didn't they release this instead of the 80386?
  3) why is it for "embedded applications" (as opposed to general use)?
  4) what about memory management?

I suspect that the answers to 2,3,4 are realted...
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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